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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BEETLE, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOAT-FRAMER.

Specification of Letters Patent 1\To. 14,903, dated May 20, 1856.

To all 'whom t may camera:

Be itknown that I, J AMEs BEETLE, of New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Boat-Framer; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which,-

Figure 1, exhibits a side view of the article in question. Fig. 2, a Vertical, central and longitudinal section of it. Fig. 3, an end view of it. Fig. a, a plan or top view of it. Fig. 5, is an underside View of it.

The object or purpose of my invention is to enable a boat builder not only to bend into a proper form for ribs, steamed or flexible strips of wood, after such have been placed or fixed on the keel timbers of the boat, but to maintain them in such bent state, until the planking or a portion of it sufiicient to keep them in their bent state has been applied land fastened to such ribs, the article or machine being so made as to be capable of being either expanded or contracted so as to adapt it to various cross sections of a boator to forming and setting up ribs of different sizes or those for Various parts of a boat. In constructing said boat framer, I make use of two sets of bent fiat bars, a, a and Z), Z), formed as seen in Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 5. Between the two bars of each set, I place, as shown in the drawings, two other bars c, (Z, or e, f, and maint-ain them in place by screws g, g, and h, h, h, which are extended through the inner bars and one of the outer bars of the set and screw into the other outer bar of said set; the screws, g, g, extending through elongated slots formed in the keel bars, o, c, as shown in Fig. 2.

The lowermost or keel bars, o, cZ, are made to turn respectively on other screw bolts, Z, Z, which extend through them and connect them with two keel rests m, m, arranged and formed as seen in the drawings.

The upper ends of the two sets of bars a, a, and b, b, are connected by two horizontal bars, a, 0, each of which turns vertically on one of the screws, h. One of these bars, n, 0, laps on the other and is provided with an elongated slot, p, through which clamp screws 7', r, pass and screw into the other of said bars.

From the above, it will readily be perceived that a framer so made can be changed in form so as to adapt it to giving the proper bends to ribs situated atvarious parts of a boat.

In using the machine, its keel rests m, m, are fastened to the keel timber, and so that the plane of the machine shall stand transversely and at right angles to the said keel timber. The rib timber or timbers, are next introduced between the parts m, m, and fastened on the keel; next, they are to be bent around against the outer edges of the bars c, (Z, c, f, and between the clamp bars a, a, or b, Z), the screws thereof being set up so as to cause the rib timbers to be held in place, or such timbers may be tied or secured to projections, t, t, extending upward from the bars a, 0. After the planking has been fastened to the ribs, the machine may be removed and adjusted for another part of the boat.

VVhat I claim is- 'Theabove described boat former, as composed of the sets of adjustable and extension bars, a, a; b, 1),' c, d; e, f, and connecting contrivances (viz. the keel rests m, m, bars n, o, and their screws) substantially as set forth, the whole being arranged together essentially in manner and for the object or purposes as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature this twenty second day of April A. D. 1856.

' JAMES BEETLE. Vitnesses:

GEO. I-IONTANA, Jr., CHARLES ALWEY. 

